Time—50 seconds.
Characters—same as Table I.
| (1) Individuality—Lincoln | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | | | + | | | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | |||||||
| R. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||
| K. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||
| J. | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| S. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||||
| Ht. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
(1) Individuality—Lincoln.
(2) Brevity—Webster.
(3) Justice—Hanus.
| | | – | + | α | β | ||
| M. | { | 4 | 19 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.3% | 39.6% | 52.1% | ||||
| R. | { | 5 | 31 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.4% | 64.5% | 25.1% | ||||
| K. | { | 14 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31.2% | 68.8% | |||||
| J. | { | 13 | 11 | 44 | 0 | 0 |
| 19.1% | 16.1% | 64.8% | ||||
| S. | { | 2 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4.8% | 95.2% | |||||
| Ht. | { | 0 | 24 | 18 | 0 | 3 |
| 53.4% | 40.0% | 6.6% | ||||
| Totals | { | 38 | 156 | 99 | 0 | 3 |
| 12.8% | 52.7% | 33.4% | 1.1% |
Number of subjects, 6; number of sections, 3; number of experiments, 18; number of associations, 296.
GROUP VII
Occasional experiments of the previous groups indicated an abnormal influence of those ideas which were accentuated by the special interests of the subjects. We ask therefore: What is the relation of the newly aroused associations to the present content of consciousness? May the present content of consciousness be so varied as to reënforce or inhibit the characteristic influence of the individual impressions successively presented? In order to test this, words or a sentence were pronounced just previous to the presentation of the two starting-points related to them as follows; in the first divisions the preparatory words lead to the second, in the second divisions to the first, in the third divisions to neither, in the fourth divisions to both, and in the last we have a slight change in the marginal setting and a sentence leads to the second.
The following are examples of the first and second divisions:
Quartz—Granite—Shale.
HORN—SLATE.